Friends

Breuer House, Lincoln, Massachusetts. Constance Breuer (at railing), Dottie Noyes (on bookshelf), and Christopher Tunnard, 1940. Photograph, b&w. 08 x 06 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art.

New Canaan House I, ca. 1947. From left to right unidentified person with a kitten, Joan McVitty, Ed Barnes, Alexander Calder, Constance Breuer, and Mary Barnes. 1 photographic print : b&w ; 10 x 10 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art.

Postcard from Austrian artist Herbert Bayer, a teacher at the Bauhaus, on holiday in Obergurgl, Austria, with artist Xanti Schawinsky and his wife Irene, ca. 1937. 09 x 14 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art.

Breuer and friends, Mercedes Matter (far left), Konrad Wachsmann (third from left), Breuer (fourth from right), and Alexander Calder (far right), [ca. 1940]. Photograph, b&w. 13 x 18 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art.

Season's greetings from László Moholy-Nagy, 1938.
Moholy-Nagy had immigrated to Chicago to head the New Bauhaus, an American version of the German school. The card features one of the artist's "photograms." Printed Material, col. 23 x 17 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art.

Letter, April 10, 1935, from Bauhaus teacher László Moholy-Nagy, trying to schedule a meeting with Breuer. 30 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art.

Letter from architect and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and his wife Ise sending New Year's greetings for 1935. 25 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art.

Walter Gropius's 80th birthday, 1963. 1 photographic print : col. ; 9 x 13 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art.

Josef Albers, Black Mountain College, North Carolina to Marcel Breuer, Cambridge, Mass., 1939. Postcard. 14 x 9 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art.

Postcard from Alexander Calder (1898-1976) with a map to his home that is reminiscent of his mobiles, April 2, 1947. 9 x 14 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art.

Letter from painter Jean Arp regarding his commissioned works for the UNESCO Headquarters, February 17, 1954. 27 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920- 1986. Archives of American Art.

Letter [between 1954 and 1959] from Eero Saarinen recommending architect Ralph Rapson . 28 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art.

Letter from Spanish artist Joan Miró thanking Breuer for a book, August 26, 1963.

in 1958, Miro completed two ceramic murals for Breuer's UNESCO headquarters in Paris. 28 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art.

Letter from Rufus Stillman with suggestions for furnishings, [ca. 1950] .

Breuer designed three houses for Stillman. 28 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art.

Letter from architect Louis Kahn expressing his appreciation for Breuer's work, November 7, 1963.

On the back of the letter is a pencil sketch of the facade of the Whitney Museum of American Art, possibly by Breuer. 22 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art.

Letter from sculptor Naum Gabo attempting to schedule a meeting with the globe-trotting Breuer, April 17 [ca.1938].

Gabo also mentions his recent exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York.27 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920- 1986. Archives of American Art.

Letter from sculptor Henry Moore concerning his sculpture Draped Reclining Woman for the garden of the Staehelin House designed by Breuer and Moore's Reclining Figure outside Breuer's UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, March 16, 1959. 23 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art.

The Marcel Breuer coloring book, [19--]. 17 p. ; 35 x 23 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art.